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Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. Leslie Fiedler
Good Think Imitate Easy Carver More More And More Writer He Raymond Appreciated
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans. Leslie Fiedler
Black Situation Changed Finally American Realized
The middlebrow, I hate. Leslie Fiedler
Hate
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot. Leslie Fiedler
Art Thinking Way Alive Stays About Only Does Always Been Lot Die Dying Really Pop Pop Art Novel
When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King. Leslie Fiedler
People Will King Remembering Stephen King Still Forgotten Us
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. Lester Bangs
Work Future Art Time Great Own Every Faces Toward Great Work Eternity Two
Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. Lester Bangs
Women Men Men And Women Corporations Purposeful Fail Which Theater Social Realize Organizations Productive Lives
When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level. Lester Bangs
Will Grass Wave Kids See Something Resurgence Over New Bands Afford America Maybe Anymore Mean Roots Whole Grass Roots Garage Thing Level Start
The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that. Lester Bangs
Great Clash About Beyond Great Thing Course Answers Searching Keep Thing
Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that. Lester Bangs
You Noise Feedback Everyone Had Like Reaction Rock James Acid James Taylor Against Acoustic Taylor Tone Early
I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this. Lester Bangs
Schizophrenic Wild Say Would About Something Raw Because Hand Yes Really Inherently Even Violent
I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices. Lester Bangs
Think Kids Would Would-Be Something Prices Like Ticket Afford Where Happened Interesting Mean Interesting Thing England Sudden Thing
I mean Iggy and The Stooges first couple of albums I think sold twenty five thousand between the two of them you know and so to talk in terms of an underground I mean you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that. Lester Bangs
You First Think Sold Independent Thousand Between Like Know Talk Terms Couple Underground Go Labels Five Stooges Mean Them Really Iggy Twenty Twenty-Five Things Albums Two
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. Lester Bangs
Hate Jazz Clark Admit He Like Whether Stanley Playing
I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music. Lester Bangs
Music Changes See Particular Any Popular Popular Music
Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. Lester Bangs
You Ugly Evil Everything Worse Everywhere Television Boring Horrible Mass Mass Media Know Stinks Just Really Rotten Media Here
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. Lester Bangs
You People Before Radical Society Would More Take Had Part Sort Inevitability Coming Truly Lot Historical As Far As Far Then Use Larger Conscience Thing Start
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. Lester Bangs
Good You Creative Yourself Words Moral Something Only Recreate Come Like Also Doing Up Artistic Maybe Decent Use Original Even Basically
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. Lionel Trilling
Environmental Art Culture Liberate Tyranny Independence Thought Perception Judgment Sense Individual Primary Beyond Him Permit His Autonomy Stand Function
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. Lionel Trilling
Impossible Humor Weapon More Generate Than Revolutionary Irony Little Ever
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. Lionel Trilling
Equality Sense Every Liberal Progressive Our Except Know Equal Equals Being Poor Us Who
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking. Lionel Trilling
Great Thinking Rather Ideas Concerned Than Vice
We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health. Lionel Trilling
Health Sickness Idea Implies Ill Even Universal
For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison. So, a dissident not only needs to learn how to oppose oppression but also how to face the crackdowns and time in prison. Liu Xiaobo
Time Needs Oppression Police Job Face Prison Oppose Our Spending Spending Time Those Only Part Also Learn How Opposition Dictatorships Movement Confronting Us
My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture. Liu Xiaobo
Me Culture Civilization Tendency Arises Idealize Overlook West Led Western Western Civilization Western Culture Reform Nationalistic Order China Flaws Use Desire
The Internet is truly God's gift to the Chinese people. Liu Xiaobo
God People Gift Internet Truly Chinese Chinese People
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